They want Trump to win because long term that's what helps them. They are not even trying to hide its one-sidedness at this point. They got Trump elected before and they are trying to do it again, with a lot of help from extremely wealthy owners. They'll help democracy burn for share price. Media has become no different than anyone else with too much money and influence.
They can stage fake WWF battles while actually helping each other profit!
It's up to us now to fight back with our numbers. VOTE!
I can't wait to celebrate Harris victory wearing this Totally Unhinged Radical Liberal shirt on November 5th in front of all Trumpers 👇 🤣
JP said: " Media has become no different than anyone else with too much money and influence."
Do some google and you will find that the media is owned and/or controlled by billionaires like Larry Fink, Brian L Roberts, Robert Iger, Ochs Sulzberg family, Redstone Family, Newhouse Family, Jeff Bezos, and even the institutions which own the majority of investments are owned and controlled by these families
The majority institutional investors of the media are Blackrock, Vanguard and State Street Group.. Institutions are run by CEO's, CEO's are hired by Boards of Directors, Chairman of the Board, represents the largest investors, which often are other corporations, and often CEO's, Chairman and Largest individual investors are the same.
The one billionaire who towers above all the othe4rss in terms of influence is Rupert Murdoch, owner of Fox News, the Wall Street Journal and other libertarian, racist outlets. How come you forgot to mention him, William?
Actually Vic, Murdoch is a given, anyone who who is anyone on the left Knows Murdochs name, but how many know the names of Robert Iger, Brian L Roberts, Larry Fink, the Newhouses, Redstones, even the Ochs Sulsbergs.
It occurs to me that big mass media outfits are like other large corporate entities. They have recurring meetings at the top, where they discuss all things business among all their VP's. How to stay afloat, how to improve the next quarterly report to stock holders, report outs on various to-do's, all associated with running a successful business and keeping it successful or making it more successful. They do news, and rely on viewers. That is how TV and newspapers work. And Trump is a gold mine of news. He is a phenom unlike any other - quite literally a bigotted ignorant dangerous idiot that once ran the country and is poised to do so again. A guy with a cult following. That is news. And has been for long enough to be a direct factor in the profit margins of these news media corporations. It should come as no surprise to us who understand a bit about unfettered capitalism that what is reported and what is expressed on opinion pages is affected at least a little by the corporate word come down from on high as to how to handle the Trump effect. If Trump goes away, like we all hope he does, what does that mean for corporate news media? If politics in this nation becomes measureably more civil and rational, how will that affect them? I for one would be watching or reading less news, and doing things more productive.
So one might wonder how much of the Trump effect is sustained and fed by our news media itself. For the sake of the bottom line. The quarterly report. I tell you - that is not healthy for the country at large. This guy and the movement he has helped create is on the verge of ruining our democracy, and the heart and soul of the nation. It doesn't take a genious to see that. Yet our system of relatively unfettered capitalism, coupled with a poorly educated gullible public, has given this cancer life. And BTW just as it has given life to continued climate denialism in the face of ever stronger evidence that we are ruining our climate, and unless some miracle occurs, has sealed the fate of our future generations to a harsh and dystopian world. Media both-siderism along with sheer neglect has allowed that to happen.
A Harris/Walz win along with taking both sides of the legislative branch will go a long way towards correcting these egregious wrongs. Not completely of course, but a good start and a good continuation of what Biden has begun.
At the risk of sounding pollyanna-ish, what if the media were to have to operate under the following rule, for every story that is submitted for approval and publication that talks of murder, mayhem, blaming, bloodshed, negative slurs, violence, imminent doom, catastrophe, and controversy, it had to have a counterbalancing story of something positive, successful, heartwarming, peace-making, generosity, and helping others to submit and publish as well?
the "mainstream media" (aka the Fourth Estate, journalism) like Elvis . . "has left the building." They realize "man bites dog," drama media, gets more clicks, and their advertisers are Republican so can't show too much truth. Trump has gone completely off standard evil. . to a stuff like shooting Cheney, deporting 12 million immigrants,. . .because nothing he says or promises gets anyone including the media upset. Yet, old senile Joe, counters the "island of garbage" with a 6th grade retort that Trumps followers are garbage. . and Trumps campaign is stopped to report this (gulp!) hateful speech?! THIS IS . . WHERE WERE AT!
Outrage is something to be noted in opinion pieces. Facts are what's to be noted in the news pages. You'll note that the Washington Post put Trump's attack on Liz Cheney prominently on its webfront and outlined Cheney's response quickly in its story. The mainline news still tends to stick with the old-line balancing of quotes way too much, and I do see opinions sneaking in to some of their stories, which an old-line editor like me would've have takemn out. But The NYTimes pretty aggressively and effectively blasted Trump on its front pages over the last week or so. Owners like Bezos and the LATimes guy (I always manage to misspell his name) aren't journalists. The people in the newsroom are and they're working in an impossible suttaiuon with Trump; every day -- sometimes may times a day -- there's something to be outraged about.
And it didn’t need to be outrageous, it could simply be reported honestly, earlier, no bias just truth followed by my favorite pet peeve, stop relating high prices to the economy and tell it for what it really is, CORPORATE GREEDFLATION. The government over years because of Repubs and diminished any controls on corporations along with citizens United, and they control price of goods.
Msnbc is covering and Wisconsin gop spokesperson said Trump was explaining that Liz Cheney liked wars or some bullshit. But he said it won’t move Trump supporters… we know that because they like he speaks like a fkn asshole!!!
Daniel - I believe that he even tried to “clean” it up by saying it is because she has never been in war. Well, neither has he. Those damn bone spurs (sarcasm).
Concerning point 10: it is not only about the autonomy of women. Intervention about reproductive rights is an insult to a class of medical professionals. They help women in need to find the best solutions. Trump says they are executing babies.
Who are they? Who is executing? It is not only about women, it is about gruesome insults for an ethical and professional class doing their work. Caregivers, unite...
I just wish a group of Dr.s would have shut this down and joined some political groups or make their own yet they are silent? Now hospitals are closing and ob/gyn are not practicing as that… afraid to get sued.. wtf is it going to take. VOTE NOW
PowerCorrupts: On a scale of 1-10, I would give this comment a 9. The statistic I would add to make it a 10 is it has been estimated that at least 70,000 people die in the US every year that wouldn't if we had an NHS.UK healthcare system. That's more people every year than have died in Gaza this past year. The scale of these deaths is staggering, yet they are scattered throughout the country and are grieved one at a time by each family without news coverage.
If civilization endures the challenges of climate change, future historians will undoubtedly condemn our inhumane, profit-driven healthcare system. They will view it with the same abhorrence we reserve for the historical atrocities of slavery and the slaughter of Native Americans. Maybe we can't accept the horror of what our system of democratic capitalism has imposed on the people. We want to believe we are exceptional in history and in the world. We are exceptional, but not as the pinnacle of humanity.
We didn't respond quickly enough either Johnson sat on his fat arse carousing his latest lady and writing a book because he needed the money. He was more or less absent when the key decisions should have been made. There were scandals too like over $45 billion being spent on useless PPE. He only relented when he was told that mass deaths were inevitable and we went into lockdown, to stop our hospital system being overwhelmed. We now have a major public enquiry to uncover what went wrong. The only good thing about out response was that Trump wasn't running it. Thank god for that.
science such as www.usar.army.mil/MRT/ was tested in Middle schools to prevent depression and now CHILD'S PLAY for Middle schoolers is being promoted by scientists and governments as explained on
I'm afraid so Mike. Took me too long to realize that not only could Trump shoot someone on 5th avenue and get away with it, but that his diehard supporters would love him for it in their misdirected resentments. No doubt I did not want to believe that of many people. I am not saying that is true of all his supporters, but true of too many.
The voters didn't think so in 2020 when Trump's failures/misdeeds were fresh in their minds and they voted him out.
So it's great for a reminder from Reich of just how terrible he was playing President.
Meanwhile, the attack on the capitol was a "day of love". If Trump were President during the great depression the GOP would be trying to convince people that the depression was a glorious chapter in American history.
Mike, as to the Prof's #100 on his list, drumpf's stalinesque dictator parade in D.C, he needs that crown jewel for his trophy case, 'meanest dictator ever'. Or maybe like Mao with his 'great leap forward', with 43 million peons dead. Mao's hideous portrait still towers over Tiananmen Square!
Reminds me a bit of the Declaration of Independence, and its list of indictments against King George III. What more is needed to see that the very office of President was bound to regress to that of the King? And you thought Nixon was bad?
We need a SCOTUS majority to remember that the Founders’ principal idea was that no person, not even the President, was above the law. They dumped 234 years of constitutional precedent in U.S. v. Trump.
Remember, it was the King/President Trump who gave us this awful SCOTUS.
The fundamental problem with the Constitution is the retention of the King, renamed the President but King nonetheless. George Mason argued strongly against the office of President, precisely because the office, with precisely the same kingly powers as George III, bore too close a resemblance.
Madison's insistence on keeping it was one of the reasons Mason refused to sign.
We are "going to war" with the political system we have, not the one we might desire.
Just as we are "going to war" against global warming with the economic system of capitalism we have, not some fantasized socialist system. that greenies want to see. That doesn't mean changes can't be made though, just as government was given new powers in WWII over the economy.
A Trump Presidency, with a likely split Congress-( Republican Senate that refuses to reign in Trump) and this Supreme Court, means the worse is possible. It would be 2 1/2 against 1/2 in the balance of power. Yes I have written off this Supreme court.
Just a heads up on parliamentary democracy: Canada's PM was elected by 20.4% (those are party wide numbers) of the voting public and straight up lost the popular vote. Currently, about 72% of the voting public want Trudeau to step down so the Liberals can chose a new leader. Instead, we're stuck with the jerk telling us how good he is for us (he isn't) until an election gets called... You're not going to like parliamentary democracy very much either.
Trudeau will be gone in a year, along with most of the Liberal Party. Parliamentary democracy may not be perfect, but it is surely better than a demented King.
Trudeau will be gone in a year, along with most of the Liberal Party.
You apparently know something I don't know. Me I'm a typical American. I don't know how shit about my neighbors, so I thought that you did. Why will they be cone within a year.
I think that proportional representation (PR) is a better electoral system than first-past-the-post (FPTP) because FPTP cancels out all voices that didn't vote for the candidate who won a plurality, but not a majority of votes. Few ridings are won with a majority; most MPs have not received a clear majority of votes in their riding.
Thanks, Professor Reich for these 101 Damnatians. It’s an interesting mix of con artistry, blatant disregard for the Office or the constitution, unrestrained hatred and division, and a heaping dose of ineptitude. Whenever possible, the top priority was always self interest and greed.
At least we now have a pretty good idea of what we need to protect ourselves from in the future.
At least he doesn't eat the dogs. He leaves it to Don Jr. and Kristi Noem to shoot them, donates the meat to the Haitians, and then he makes the coats.
One is enough to damn us all: climate change denial. Like a runaway train, the country is headed toward the abyss. The deluded passengers hope that an insane machinist will save them. Magical thinking.
We need to get this factual information out to everyone all week leading up to the election! Thank you Professor Reich for doing your part to save our Democracy.
Professor Reich: thank you for the timely reminder of the literal HELL that i and so many others experienced during Trump's four years in office. as i read your list, i recall the many nights where i was unable to sleep due to my almost-nightly anxiety attacks, i recall the terror i felt when trump declared his war on the environment and proclaimed that climate change was a hoax, and i recall being outraged about his selling national secrets and embarrassed when he did so many stupid things in front of world leaders. (buying greenland? i thought that was a joke at first, but ... no!)
GirlScientist, I to remember those years filled with constant anxiety. Only the lucid, informative writing of dedicated Americans like Robert Reich, Heather Cox Richardson, Robert Hubbell, Joyce Vance, Simon Rosenberg, Timothy Snyder help keep so many of us sane and action-oriented to fight. I am so deeply grateful for them. When the history of this time gets written, THEY will be revealed to be the true Fourth Estate.
His insanity and cruelty has grown exponentially it seems, since his term in office. Last night at a sit down with Tucker Carlson, he said Liz Cheney is a war hawk and asked how she would like it if nine rifles were pointing at her face. (I assume he was referring to a firing squad.) Even I'm appalled he would paint such a horrific picture, knowing some of his crazy, violent followers may act on his words.
I wish for the safety of my fellow citizen, Liz Cheney, and her family. Please DOJ take action.
"Trump wasn’t charged for criminal obstruction because it’s the Justice Department’s policy not to indict a sitting president" How and when did the Justice Department , of all things, create a "policy" to ignore Justice? It was a human who came up with this ; Who was it? why was this allowed? I can see how frivolous suits could hamper a President. But having a policy to not even investigate or indict a president's clear wrongdoing has nothing to do with justice. "nobody is above the law" What an effing lie!
Sadly, his obscenely wealthy supporters can afford to spend huge sums to buy campaign ads and various seats in government, putting the majority of US into a kind of poll tax situation, which is against the law. for what that is worth these days.
Roads to progress keep butting up against Citizens United. It is the poisoning of the well of our democracy from which we are all now forced to drink. I hate the Supreme Court for what it has done to us and this great country of ours.
Hating the Supreme Court is not enough. I’ve said it before, but don’t mind repeating myself. President Biden has got to use his Supreme Court granted ‘ sitting‘ president immunity powers to shut down the court, even temporarily, and remove that block of Trump – installed conservative traitorous monsters. Impeachment is too long and fraught of a process in these dangerous times when emergency actions must be taken to purge the corrupt evil they have encouraged if we are to save our democracy. Oh, and while he’s at it, he should begin the process of eliminatingthe electoral college. For me,“We the people“ must become a force to be reckoned with when it comes to deciding what is good for all of us.
The only part of the Constitution that needs to be destroyed is the Electoral College. Good luck getting 2/3 of the congress and 3/4 (38) states to pass that idea. Cheers... GH
Thank you Prof. Reich for reminding us in unsettling detail of the hateful and insidious acts of this buffoon who we've come to despise for his insincerity, his lack of empathy, compassion, intelligence, and his insolent, anarchic, uncontrolled, and malignant narcissism and misogyny, all of which had already been documented in the New York Times 360-page bestseller from 2017: "The Dangerous Case of Donald Trump: 27 Psychiatrists and Mental Health Experts Assess a President." Please note the word "Dangerous." The book was compiled by Bandy Lee, M.D., organizer of the "Yale Duty to Warn Conference" in 2017.
Thanks Dana, it is reassuring that experts are corroborating the evidence while the rest of us wring our hands, rant when friends and relatives will listen, and then pray for our own and the country's redemption.
If deranged #45 is elected again, we are all but certain to have a kakistocracy (/kækɪˈstɒkrəsi/, /kækɪsˈtɒ-/) : a government run by the worst, least qualified, or most unscrupulous citizens.
Trump participated in a Presidential debate without taking a Covid test as he agreed to do beforehand. Trump was hospitalized almost immediately after with Covid.
Thank you, Professor Reich, for having the patience to compile this list. We could not see the back of this evil bigot soon enough.
On Hallows Eve, Trump asked his people to execute his political enemies.
Trump on Liz Cheney: ‘Let’s put her with a rifle standing there with nine barrels shooting at her’ https://www.politico.com/live-updates/2024/10/31/2024-elections-live-coverage-updates-analysis/trump-rips-liz-cheney-00186693
Fight. https://events.democrats.org/
Where’s the mainstream media outrage?
They want Trump to win because long term that's what helps them. They are not even trying to hide its one-sidedness at this point. They got Trump elected before and they are trying to do it again, with a lot of help from extremely wealthy owners. They'll help democracy burn for share price. Media has become no different than anyone else with too much money and influence.
They can stage fake WWF battles while actually helping each other profit!
It's up to us now to fight back with our numbers. VOTE!
I can't wait to celebrate Harris victory wearing this Totally Unhinged Radical Liberal shirt on November 5th in front of all Trumpers 👇 🤣
https://libtees-2.creator-spring.com/listing/radlib
JP said: " Media has become no different than anyone else with too much money and influence."
Do some google and you will find that the media is owned and/or controlled by billionaires like Larry Fink, Brian L Roberts, Robert Iger, Ochs Sulzberg family, Redstone Family, Newhouse Family, Jeff Bezos, and even the institutions which own the majority of investments are owned and controlled by these families
The majority institutional investors of the media are Blackrock, Vanguard and State Street Group.. Institutions are run by CEO's, CEO's are hired by Boards of Directors, Chairman of the Board, represents the largest investors, which often are other corporations, and often CEO's, Chairman and Largest individual investors are the same.
The one billionaire who towers above all the othe4rss in terms of influence is Rupert Murdoch, owner of Fox News, the Wall Street Journal and other libertarian, racist outlets. How come you forgot to mention him, William?
Actually Vic, Murdoch is a given, anyone who who is anyone on the left Knows Murdochs name, but how many know the names of Robert Iger, Brian L Roberts, Larry Fink, the Newhouses, Redstones, even the Ochs Sulsbergs.
Because I am a publicist for Rupert Vic, when I am not letting him fuck me in the butt.
It occurs to me that big mass media outfits are like other large corporate entities. They have recurring meetings at the top, where they discuss all things business among all their VP's. How to stay afloat, how to improve the next quarterly report to stock holders, report outs on various to-do's, all associated with running a successful business and keeping it successful or making it more successful. They do news, and rely on viewers. That is how TV and newspapers work. And Trump is a gold mine of news. He is a phenom unlike any other - quite literally a bigotted ignorant dangerous idiot that once ran the country and is poised to do so again. A guy with a cult following. That is news. And has been for long enough to be a direct factor in the profit margins of these news media corporations. It should come as no surprise to us who understand a bit about unfettered capitalism that what is reported and what is expressed on opinion pages is affected at least a little by the corporate word come down from on high as to how to handle the Trump effect. If Trump goes away, like we all hope he does, what does that mean for corporate news media? If politics in this nation becomes measureably more civil and rational, how will that affect them? I for one would be watching or reading less news, and doing things more productive.
So one might wonder how much of the Trump effect is sustained and fed by our news media itself. For the sake of the bottom line. The quarterly report. I tell you - that is not healthy for the country at large. This guy and the movement he has helped create is on the verge of ruining our democracy, and the heart and soul of the nation. It doesn't take a genious to see that. Yet our system of relatively unfettered capitalism, coupled with a poorly educated gullible public, has given this cancer life. And BTW just as it has given life to continued climate denialism in the face of ever stronger evidence that we are ruining our climate, and unless some miracle occurs, has sealed the fate of our future generations to a harsh and dystopian world. Media both-siderism along with sheer neglect has allowed that to happen.
A Harris/Walz win along with taking both sides of the legislative branch will go a long way towards correcting these egregious wrongs. Not completely of course, but a good start and a good continuation of what Biden has begun.
At the risk of sounding pollyanna-ish, what if the media were to have to operate under the following rule, for every story that is submitted for approval and publication that talks of murder, mayhem, blaming, bloodshed, negative slurs, violence, imminent doom, catastrophe, and controversy, it had to have a counterbalancing story of something positive, successful, heartwarming, peace-making, generosity, and helping others to submit and publish as well?
If it bleeds, it leads. Simple formula
Yes, simple and effective, cheap also.
Don't Forget The Roman Emperors' Pallative... Bread & Circuses For The Masses...
Only problem with wearing that shirt is that, in the current political climate, some MAGA nutbag is liable to shoot the wearer…
They're afraid of him...or rather, their owners are in bed with him? Bezos, Murdoch,,,
So horrible and frightening. Yet a perfect example of just how dangerous this man is.
They don't want to report on it because they are afraid they will lose their access to Trump.
Personally, I don't want access to the lying mofo.
It was on MSNBC this morning.
MSM is owned by billionaires who have a self interest in seeing trump succeed.
They are not interested in democracy, just money and power.
Again: DAY ONE Dear Leader Bunkerboy WILL send ALL journalists to a GULAG! SAD.
It pays to make distinctions. The MSM is hardly monolithic when it comes to Trump.
the "mainstream media" (aka the Fourth Estate, journalism) like Elvis . . "has left the building." They realize "man bites dog," drama media, gets more clicks, and their advertisers are Republican so can't show too much truth. Trump has gone completely off standard evil. . to a stuff like shooting Cheney, deporting 12 million immigrants,. . .because nothing he says or promises gets anyone including the media upset. Yet, old senile Joe, counters the "island of garbage" with a 6th grade retort that Trumps followers are garbage. . and Trumps campaign is stopped to report this (gulp!) hateful speech?! THIS IS . . WHERE WERE AT!
Reciprocity is a mode of fast thinking that works poorly in a civilized society.
Outrage is something to be noted in opinion pieces. Facts are what's to be noted in the news pages. You'll note that the Washington Post put Trump's attack on Liz Cheney prominently on its webfront and outlined Cheney's response quickly in its story. The mainline news still tends to stick with the old-line balancing of quotes way too much, and I do see opinions sneaking in to some of their stories, which an old-line editor like me would've have takemn out. But The NYTimes pretty aggressively and effectively blasted Trump on its front pages over the last week or so. Owners like Bezos and the LATimes guy (I always manage to misspell his name) aren't journalists. The people in the newsroom are and they're working in an impossible suttaiuon with Trump; every day -- sometimes may times a day -- there's something to be outraged about.
And it didn’t need to be outrageous, it could simply be reported honestly, earlier, no bias just truth followed by my favorite pet peeve, stop relating high prices to the economy and tell it for what it really is, CORPORATE GREEDFLATION. The government over years because of Repubs and diminished any controls on corporations along with citizens United, and they control price of goods.
Msnbc is covering and Wisconsin gop spokesperson said Trump was explaining that Liz Cheney liked wars or some bullshit. But he said it won’t move Trump supporters… we know that because they like he speaks like a fkn asshole!!!
They WANT to be ANNIHILATED by Master Bunkerboy on DAY ONE I guess . . . pathetic losers praising The Loser.
like Elvis. . the Fourth Estate has "left the building." There are two groups responsible if Trump wins. . the media and the Democrats.
On PBS News Hour. 6 PM MDT
Thank you for posting this! Isn’t there a point where free speech ends and threats are treated as treats with consequences?!
This needs to be put on blast all over the world with just four days before the election.
You can post in comments on Fox entities, Joe Rogan, etc.
🤬🤬🤬
Daniel - I believe that he even tried to “clean” it up by saying it is because she has never been in war. Well, neither has he. Those damn bone spurs (sarcasm).
Concerning point 10: it is not only about the autonomy of women. Intervention about reproductive rights is an insult to a class of medical professionals. They help women in need to find the best solutions. Trump says they are executing babies.
Who are they? Who is executing? It is not only about women, it is about gruesome insults for an ethical and professional class doing their work. Caregivers, unite...
I just wish a group of Dr.s would have shut this down and joined some political groups or make their own yet they are silent? Now hospitals are closing and ob/gyn are not practicing as that… afraid to get sued.. wtf is it going to take. VOTE NOW
❤Reich❤:"pandemic response led to hundreds of thousands of needless deaths. "
338',000 was one scholarly estimate of the number saved if the US had an NHS.UK.
PowerCorrupts: On a scale of 1-10, I would give this comment a 9. The statistic I would add to make it a 10 is it has been estimated that at least 70,000 people die in the US every year that wouldn't if we had an NHS.UK healthcare system. That's more people every year than have died in Gaza this past year. The scale of these deaths is staggering, yet they are scattered throughout the country and are grieved one at a time by each family without news coverage.
If civilization endures the challenges of climate change, future historians will undoubtedly condemn our inhumane, profit-driven healthcare system. They will view it with the same abhorrence we reserve for the historical atrocities of slavery and the slaughter of Native Americans. Maybe we can't accept the horror of what our system of democratic capitalism has imposed on the people. We want to believe we are exceptional in history and in the world. We are exceptional, but not as the pinnacle of humanity.
And almost no emojis.
We didn't respond quickly enough either Johnson sat on his fat arse carousing his latest lady and writing a book because he needed the money. He was more or less absent when the key decisions should have been made. There were scandals too like over $45 billion being spent on useless PPE. He only relented when he was told that mass deaths were inevitable and we went into lockdown, to stop our hospital system being overwhelmed. We now have a major public enquiry to uncover what went wrong. The only good thing about out response was that Trump wasn't running it. Thank god for that.
In 2022 16.6 million Americans wanted to die... an uptrend resulting in "Most Americans wanting to suicide in the next 10 years."...?
Depression can be prevented by science such as
https://www.usar.army.mil/MRT/
....but if we do nothing, up to 50% are cured by placebo such as MAGA.
Grieving, similar to placebo, can happen in unscientific ways such as MAGA.
The best predictor of whether or not a county voted for Trump was Deaths of Despair.
science such as www.usar.army.mil/MRT/ was tested in Middle schools to prevent depression and now CHILD'S PLAY for Middle schoolers is being promoted by scientists and governments as explained on
AnxiousGeneration.com
Power, how can I get access to that information to use as a reference?
I just voice mailed you at (949) 643-92xx...? (like I did mos ago ...without response?)
I subscribed to your empty blog mos ago ...without response?)
“Abuse of Power”. adds more:
https://youtube.com/shorts/mtmrWdc4j1Y?si=Wu6l13gtMq5tGJMg
This sounds like Satan’s worksheet that has come to life! Trump and Hate are synonymous.
Trump supporter after reading this list: “Best president ever”!
"but her emails" ... "but his laptop" ... "but her laugh" ... same ol song. 🥱
What can you possibly like about Trump? You must like a dictator over our democracy.
I'm afraid so Mike. Took me too long to realize that not only could Trump shoot someone on 5th avenue and get away with it, but that his diehard supporters would love him for it in their misdirected resentments. No doubt I did not want to believe that of many people. I am not saying that is true of all his supporters, but true of too many.
Mike Hammer - best comment ever.
True...I heard it .
Don't be defeatist. https://rvat.org/
FT 6 still registering new Democrats in NC, MI, WI, NV. https://www.fieldteam6.org/free-byop-textbanks
Next they will want to put him on Mt. Rushmore like the Reagan bozos wanted to do.
Cheers... GH
The voters didn't think so in 2020 when Trump's failures/misdeeds were fresh in their minds and they voted him out.
So it's great for a reminder from Reich of just how terrible he was playing President.
Meanwhile, the attack on the capitol was a "day of love". If Trump were President during the great depression the GOP would be trying to convince people that the depression was a glorious chapter in American history.
Mike, as to the Prof's #100 on his list, drumpf's stalinesque dictator parade in D.C, he needs that crown jewel for his trophy case, 'meanest dictator ever'. Or maybe like Mao with his 'great leap forward', with 43 million peons dead. Mao's hideous portrait still towers over Tiananmen Square!
Reminds me a bit of the Declaration of Independence, and its list of indictments against King George III. What more is needed to see that the very office of President was bound to regress to that of the King? And you thought Nixon was bad?
The US needs parliamentary democracy.
We need a SCOTUS majority to remember that the Founders’ principal idea was that no person, not even the President, was above the law. They dumped 234 years of constitutional precedent in U.S. v. Trump.
They need to be impeached!
No, they don't need that, we do.
Remember, it was the King/President Trump who gave us this awful SCOTUS.
The fundamental problem with the Constitution is the retention of the King, renamed the President but King nonetheless. George Mason argued strongly against the office of President, precisely because the office, with precisely the same kingly powers as George III, bore too close a resemblance.
Madison's insistence on keeping it was one of the reasons Mason refused to sign.
We are "going to war" with the political system we have, not the one we might desire.
Just as we are "going to war" against global warming with the economic system of capitalism we have, not some fantasized socialist system. that greenies want to see. That doesn't mean changes can't be made though, just as government was given new powers in WWII over the economy.
It's clear to most people, except for those 6 on the Supreme Court, that the Presidency has accrued too much power over the past decades (see for example Califano https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xkc039_YNsg&ab_channel=FacetheNation )
A Trump Presidency, with a likely split Congress-( Republican Senate that refuses to reign in Trump) and this Supreme Court, means the worse is possible. It would be 2 1/2 against 1/2 in the balance of power. Yes I have written off this Supreme court.
Corrupt to their very essence.
Just a heads up on parliamentary democracy: Canada's PM was elected by 20.4% (those are party wide numbers) of the voting public and straight up lost the popular vote. Currently, about 72% of the voting public want Trudeau to step down so the Liberals can chose a new leader. Instead, we're stuck with the jerk telling us how good he is for us (he isn't) until an election gets called... You're not going to like parliamentary democracy very much either.
Trudeau will be gone in a year, along with most of the Liberal Party. Parliamentary democracy may not be perfect, but it is surely better than a demented King.
Michael, what is wrong with the Liberal Party?
I didn't say there was anything wrong with it. Ask a Canadian.
Michael I was just responding to your comment:
Trudeau will be gone in a year, along with most of the Liberal Party.
You apparently know something I don't know. Me I'm a typical American. I don't know how shit about my neighbors, so I thought that you did. Why will they be cone within a year.
I think that proportional representation (PR) is a better electoral system than first-past-the-post (FPTP) because FPTP cancels out all voices that didn't vote for the candidate who won a plurality, but not a majority of votes. Few ridings are won with a majority; most MPs have not received a clear majority of votes in their riding.
No perfect system. Same thing with election systems. Each has pros and cons.
Depends largely on one's goals and assessment of fairness. And that varies from person to person. I like ranked choice voting. Others approval voting.
Well now I have to look up approval voting.
We had the Mad King Orange, as Kamala stated, " He must never stand behind the podium of the President ever again"
Trump Tories. The king is dead. long live the king!
Thanks, Professor Reich for these 101 Damnatians. It’s an interesting mix of con artistry, blatant disregard for the Office or the constitution, unrestrained hatred and division, and a heaping dose of ineptitude. Whenever possible, the top priority was always self interest and greed.
At least we now have a pretty good idea of what we need to protect ourselves from in the future.
101 Damnations! Good movie title reference!
"101 Damnations" is spot-on. The Trumpster is the male version of Cruella Deville.
Cruella DeDon
At least he doesn't eat the dogs. He leaves it to Don Jr. and Kristi Noem to shoot them, donates the meat to the Haitians, and then he makes the coats.
Or give the meat to RFK.
And malevolent pettiness!
Loved "101 Damnations"! Made my night, TBH.
Cheering you all on from Australia!
One is enough to damn us all: climate change denial. Like a runaway train, the country is headed toward the abyss. The deluded passengers hope that an insane machinist will save them. Magical thinking.
We need to get this factual information out to everyone all week leading up to the election! Thank you Professor Reich for doing your part to save our Democracy.
Start with comments on Fox websites. Social media. Every Fox talking head has social media.
Most of that list is not factual.
Really Josh. In conspiracy circles the name Rothschild does not have a good name, but a lot of fame. You add to it.
Inform us please what on that list is incorrect?
I see you can't, you never responded to Jen Andrews request.
Oh do be specific .
Or go away
Professor Reich: thank you for the timely reminder of the literal HELL that i and so many others experienced during Trump's four years in office. as i read your list, i recall the many nights where i was unable to sleep due to my almost-nightly anxiety attacks, i recall the terror i felt when trump declared his war on the environment and proclaimed that climate change was a hoax, and i recall being outraged about his selling national secrets and embarrassed when he did so many stupid things in front of world leaders. (buying greenland? i thought that was a joke at first, but ... no!)
GirlScientist, I to remember those years filled with constant anxiety. Only the lucid, informative writing of dedicated Americans like Robert Reich, Heather Cox Richardson, Robert Hubbell, Joyce Vance, Simon Rosenberg, Timothy Snyder help keep so many of us sane and action-oriented to fight. I am so deeply grateful for them. When the history of this time gets written, THEY will be revealed to be the true Fourth Estate.
I fear another trump reign would shut down these avenues.
HE'S the joke, but we ain't laughing.
Collaboration with Putin comes to mind, stealing & most likely selling top secret documents …
Yet with all of this he’s still allowed to run for POTUS, what am I missing???
DOJ has failed miserably. He should have been arrested on 1/6 or at least 1/20 1 minute after Joe Biden was inaugurated.
His insanity and cruelty has grown exponentially it seems, since his term in office. Last night at a sit down with Tucker Carlson, he said Liz Cheney is a war hawk and asked how she would like it if nine rifles were pointing at her face. (I assume he was referring to a firing squad.) Even I'm appalled he would paint such a horrific picture, knowing some of his crazy, violent followers may act on his words.
I wish for the safety of my fellow citizen, Liz Cheney, and her family. Please DOJ take action.
Garland is worthless & weak. He needs to be replaced with a spine.
I agree.
Like the schoolyard bully and Hitler, doesn't he get his goons to do all his dirty work?
He seems to be ignorant to the fact that Hitlers generals tried to kill him on several occasions.
"Trump wasn’t charged for criminal obstruction because it’s the Justice Department’s policy not to indict a sitting president" How and when did the Justice Department , of all things, create a "policy" to ignore Justice? It was a human who came up with this ; Who was it? why was this allowed? I can see how frivolous suits could hamper a President. But having a policy to not even investigate or indict a president's clear wrongdoing has nothing to do with justice. "nobody is above the law" What an effing lie!
Laurie Blair, I strongly agree with you. It seems like, it is more of a "brush it under the rug" policy.
But not that rug on the Trumpster's head. He always manages to duck away from the dirt.
Steve Doll, thanks for the laugh!
Definitely
Sadly, his obscenely wealthy supporters can afford to spend huge sums to buy campaign ads and various seats in government, putting the majority of US into a kind of poll tax situation, which is against the law. for what that is worth these days.
Citizens United needs to go!
Roads to progress keep butting up against Citizens United. It is the poisoning of the well of our democracy from which we are all now forced to drink. I hate the Supreme Court for what it has done to us and this great country of ours.
Hating the Supreme Court is not enough. I’ve said it before, but don’t mind repeating myself. President Biden has got to use his Supreme Court granted ‘ sitting‘ president immunity powers to shut down the court, even temporarily, and remove that block of Trump – installed conservative traitorous monsters. Impeachment is too long and fraught of a process in these dangerous times when emergency actions must be taken to purge the corrupt evil they have encouraged if we are to save our democracy. Oh, and while he’s at it, he should begin the process of eliminatingthe electoral college. For me,“We the people“ must become a force to be reckoned with when it comes to deciding what is good for all of us.
The only part of the Constitution that needs to be destroyed is the Electoral College. Good luck getting 2/3 of the congress and 3/4 (38) states to pass that idea. Cheers... GH
If only!
Not only that, but Trump-embedded members of SCROTUS must go.
That's a fundamental action that needs to happen. This campaign season has been ridiculous.
So again I ask why is he even been allowed to run again?
The simplest answer is: "because Joe Biden is president."
The don's bluster and connections with equally base, but unfortunately highly influential parties have cowed a lot of his opposition.
Do you actually believe the president can influence who runs against him? wtf?
How about the Extreme Court? Colorado and Maine both tried to disqualify the mf from the ballot, and the Court intervened.
I swear it's incredible what stupid trolls have infected this site. Because it's all I can conclude you are.
I believe an effective president has a LOT of influence. Count Biden OUT.
Hard to believe we have all lived through this. Please let it be over soon. Go ,La and Coach!!🇨🇦
An exhaustive list…and exhausting to recall.
Agreed. What a tiresome pile of shit the Trump years have accumulated.
If you can read this without being terrified you may be part of the problem.
Exactly!
Thank you Prof. Reich for reminding us in unsettling detail of the hateful and insidious acts of this buffoon who we've come to despise for his insincerity, his lack of empathy, compassion, intelligence, and his insolent, anarchic, uncontrolled, and malignant narcissism and misogyny, all of which had already been documented in the New York Times 360-page bestseller from 2017: "The Dangerous Case of Donald Trump: 27 Psychiatrists and Mental Health Experts Assess a President." Please note the word "Dangerous." The book was compiled by Bandy Lee, M.D., organizer of the "Yale Duty to Warn Conference" in 2017.
For sure. Trump is mentally ill. Completely unfit to be president.
(I don't need a list of reasons. Mentally ill people will keep doing the things that add to the list.)
So, much of the US electorate is mentally ill….
The Trumpian media is having a field day keel hauling Biden for saying the truth, that MAGAts are garbage.
Racists don't like being called racists.
Fascists don't like being called fascists.
Sexists don't like being called sexists
Garbage and deplorables don't like being called garbage and deplorables.
That so many in the media, are upset with Biden is prima facie evidence that the media, those that are upset, belong to the MAGAt cult.
Only stuck pigs squeal.
Much of the US electorate is under terrible mental strain. And that strain can certainly produce illness.
They have been dumbed down by citizens United , the loss of media equanimity, the deconstruction of education. The strain is inaccurately ascribed.
She has gone on to host a recent conference at the National Press Club documenting his mental disease, and quite a bit more about his psychopathy.
Yes, but only sane people believe her.
Thanks Dana, it is reassuring that experts are corroborating the evidence while the rest of us wring our hands, rant when friends and relatives will listen, and then pray for our own and the country's redemption.
A mentally impaired 15 year old boy, according to Admiral McRaven.
If deranged #45 is elected again, we are all but certain to have a kakistocracy (/kækɪˈstɒkrəsi/, /kækɪsˈtɒ-/) : a government run by the worst, least qualified, or most unscrupulous citizens.
Trump participated in a Presidential debate without taking a Covid test as he agreed to do beforehand. Trump was hospitalized almost immediately after with Covid.
Sadly they treated him with more effective drugs than ivermectin and hydroxychloroqunie, which he advocated for the rest of us.
Why didn't they use the bleach and ultra-violet treatment???
Cheers... GH